Toolbar - PyQt with Python GUI Programming tutorial 6

In this PyQT4 GUI application development tutorial, we cover how to add a toolbar to our app. Generally, a toolbar is a bar that goes under the menubar by default, but it has larger buttons, is dynamic according to the current view/page your are on in the app, and can be moved around if the user wants to.

[dannydk]

Dex, you're incredibly intelligent and very easy to understand. This is an excellent tutorial series; these videos are really helping me develop my GUI!

[deadbunnyeyes]

Your examples are the best! Cool series, love it ;)

[salahhamza]

Really interested to know this:
Why is it for the menuBar you made it a normal variable but for the you did self.toolBar?
Thanks

[cadewalton]

Any way I can set the toolbar to initialize on the bottom instead of the top? I don't want to drag it down there every time.

[ssc]

Why did you use 'self.toolBar' instead of using just ' toolBar' as you did for the variable 'mainMenu' ? Does it create any problem while making multi-window applications? By the way using just 'toolBar' instead of 'self.toolBar' works in PyQt5.

[filipes]

Great tutorial! The only thing that still worries me is the "close_application vs close_application()". The difference between a method and a parameter in Python classes is clear to me (or I've been quite sure until now at least), but in this case I need further explanation... Any ideas?

[typedeckeralt]

Hey bro i tried to go to the site to download pyqt at riverbank but the website isn't even responding and other sites are working i have tried switching the browser but no help

[AmgadElsaiegh]

Very good tutorial but I wonder, How can I create a vertical toolbar?

[ronrobinson]

What Python IDE are you using for these training videos? They are very helpful for me as a beginner in Pyqt4.

[brettzook]

How do you add a second window? Do you make another class like window 2? You have def home (self) which calls the window class. If you want to be able to navigate to a secondary window from the "home menu" what would you do?

[tanweerahmad]

I was not understanding why my app used to close immediately upon:

now you solved my issue :D

[yuyetasatcham]

I dont understand what "flee the scene" means? it is connected with who or what? why that?

[markuslemcke]

I'm Python-Beginner. I want to know, how to add a combobox to a toolbar in python Qt

[ginoskotheon]

When I try to add several icons, they all stack up on the left. How would I get them to line up on the tool bar?

[haribalsulimani]

Hi Sentdex, thank you for your wonderful tubes
In this tube I did the same code but unfortunately it haven't work
 extractAction =

  self.toolBar = self.addToolBar("Extraction")
   
and this message is appear

extractAction =
TypeError: arguments did not match any overloaded call:
  QAction(QObject): argument 1 has unexpected type 'QIcon'
  QAction(str, QObject): argument 1 has unexpected type 'QIcon'
  QAction(QIcon, str, QObject): not enough arguments


please help if possible
thank you

[manzoorshaik]

i am not getting icon, ,,,i am using Ubuntu

[dayvie]

I prefer using the qt Designer over placing elements manually

[diehardAMD]

I laughed when he said imagine babies in reference to "Get to CHOPPAH!" It's from an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie Predator. "Hit the baby" hahaha

[HexagonalClosePacked]

I found this easier than tkinter so far.

[MatthewTaylorAu]

another great tutorial. thanks!

relevant documentation.
QAction.__init__ (self, QIcon icon, QString text, QObject parent)
I get it that the self is not required in our code.
I'm a little confused why we needed to reference 'self' in the code in place of 'QObject parent'

extractAction = QtGui.QAction(QtGui.QIcon('todachoppa.png'), 'Flee the Scene', self)

thoughts?